Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 29 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 342 273 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.72% 7.82% 6.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.01% 37.55% 25.77%
Number of salaries quoted 195 120 346
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,574 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -18.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £92,500 £80,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 977 727 1,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.33% 20.83% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 735 446 1,547
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.73%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +19 132 £55,000 +10.00% 39
Oxfordshire +4 132 £60,000 -4.00% 32
Buckinghamshire +6 78 £56,000 -13.85% 21
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.75%) Confluence
2 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) WordPress
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 62 (18.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.88%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.88%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.58%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Raiser’s Edge
2 3 (0.88%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 163 (47.66%) Azure
2 112 (32.75%) AWS
3 76 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 69 (20.18%) Azure AI
5 32 (9.36%) GCP
6 18 (5.26%) GitHub
7 17 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (4.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 15 (4.39%) Serverless
9 14 (4.09%) OpenShift
10 13 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.80%) Cloudflare
11 11 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.63%) SaaS
13 7 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.94%) Firewall
2 26 (7.60%) DNS
3 14 (4.09%) VPN
4 9 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.34%) DHCP
5 8 (2.34%) SSL
6 6 (1.75%) HTTP
6 6 (1.75%) Wireless
7 5 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.46%) VLAN
8 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.88%) MQTT
10 2 (0.58%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.58%) Internet
11 1 (0.29%) Broadband
11 1 (0.29%) DNSSEC
11 1 (0.29%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.29%) SMTP
11 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.29%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (19.30%) Power BI
2 51 (14.91%) Tableau
3 24 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.75%) Airbyte
6 6 (1.75%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.17%) MySQL
9 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.58%) Redis
10 2 (0.58%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.29%) Big Data
11 1 (0.29%) GIS
11 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.29%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 41 (11.99%) Git
2 25 (7.31%) GitLab
3 18 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.39%) JIRA
5 8 (2.34%) JUnit
6 7 (2.05%) JMeter
6 7 (2.05%) Mockito
7 6 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.46%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.46%) LabVIEW
9 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.88%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.88%) VectorCAST
11 2 (0.58%) Mocha
11 2 (0.58%) PetaLinux
11 2 (0.58%) Selenium
12 1 (0.29%) Storybook
12 1 (0.29%) Subversion
12 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 148 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (9.65%) Finance
3 33 (9.65%) Manufacturing
4 15 (4.39%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.75%) Electronics
9 6 (1.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.46%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.46%) Law
11 4 (1.17%) Automotive
11 4 (1.17%) Banking
11 4 (1.17%) Games
12 3 (0.88%) Marketing
13 2 (0.58%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 80 (23.39%) Analyst
1 80 (23.39%) Software Engineer
2 63 (18.42%) Python Engineer
3 61 (17.84%) Data Analyst
4 53 (15.50%) Python Software Engineer
5 49 (14.33%) Junior
6 48 (14.04%) Junior Analyst
6 48 (14.04%) Junior Data Analyst
7 38 (11.11%) Developer
8 36 (10.53%) C++ Software Engineer
9 31 (9.06%) Senior
10 27 (7.89%) C# Software Engineer
11 23 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 22 (6.43%) Data Engineer
12 22 (6.43%) Network Engineer
13 19 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (4.97%) AWS Software Engineer
16 12 (3.51%) Java Engineer
16 12 (3.51%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.89%) REST
2 22 (6.43%) JSON
3 14 (4.09%) HTML
3 14 (4.09%) YAML
4 13 (3.80%) Django
4 13 (3.80%) NumPy
4 13 (3.80%) Pandas
4 13 (3.80%) React
5 11 (3.22%) XML
6 10 (2.92%) Jinja
6 10 (2.92%) Web Services
7 8 (2.34%) Spring
7 8 (2.34%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.05%) .NET
8 7 (2.05%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (2.05%) Apache Camel
8 7 (2.05%) CSS
8 7 (2.05%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.05%) jQuery
8 7 (2.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.85%) Low-Code
4 17 (4.97%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (4.68%) Algorithms
6 15 (4.39%) Cloud Native
7 14 (4.09%) Client/Server
7 14 (4.09%) Life Science
8 11 (3.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.92%) Hackathon
10 9 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (2.34%) PKI
12 7 (2.05%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (2.05%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.75%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.46%) Fibre Optics
14 5 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.35%) Linux
2 26 (7.60%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Debian
4 3 (0.88%) Gentoo
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.29%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.29%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.50%) AI
2 90 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 85 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 74 (21.64%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (19.59%) Agile
7 54 (15.79%) DevOps
8 44 (12.87%) Computer Science
8 44 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (12.57%) Analytics
10 38 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 38 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 35 (10.23%) Machine Learning
12 32 (9.36%) Data Modelling
13 29 (8.48%) Deployment Automation
14 28 (8.19%) Data Governance
15 27 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (7.60%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (6.73%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 101 (29.53%) SQL
2 65 (19.01%) C++
3 53 (15.50%) C#
4 47 (13.74%) JavaScript
5 34 (9.94%) Java
5 34 (9.94%) PowerShell
6 27 (7.89%) Bash
7 22 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.85%) C
9 16 (4.68%) Rust
10 11 (3.22%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.22%) VBA
11 7 (2.05%) MATLAB
12 6 (1.75%) Groovy
13 5 (1.46%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.17%) Go
14 4 (1.17%) Perl
14 4 (1.17%) R
14 4 (1.17%) Ruby
15 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 84 (24.56%) Degree
2 70 (20.47%) Azure Certification
3 51 (14.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (10.23%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.48%) SC Cleared
6 22 (6.43%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 10 (2.92%) PhD
8 8 (2.34%) ACCA
8 8 (2.34%) CIMA
8 8 (2.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) GCIA
11 2 (0.58%) GIAC
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CEH
12 1 (0.29%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.94%) QA
2 16 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) GDPR
4 4 (1.17%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.88%) ECSS
5 3 (0.88%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.88%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.58%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) MISRA
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (10.23%) Docker
2 30 (8.77%) Hyper-V
2 30 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.73%) KVM
4 15 (4.39%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.17%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.26%) Terraform
3 14 (4.09%) Graylog
4 13 (3.80%) Ansible
5 9 (2.63%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.34%) Kibana
6 8 (2.34%) ZABBIX
7 7 (2.05%) Grafana
7 7 (2.05%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.46%) Argo
9 4 (1.17%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.17%) Packer
10 3 (0.88%) Istio
10 3 (0.88%) Podman
11 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.77%) VMware
3 14 (4.09%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.80%) SAP
5 11 (3.22%) Cisco
6 10 (2.92%) Oracle
6 10 (2.92%) Splunk
7 9 (2.63%) Databricks
8 8 (2.34%) IBM
8 8 (2.34%) Veeam
9 7 (2.05%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.75%) Google
11 5 (1.46%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.46%) F5
11 5 (1.46%) Juniper
11 5 (1.46%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.88%) MuleSoft